The Republican journal., 1887-12-01

Cafrolls home IN Howard county, they will
make frequent visits to Washington, if they
do not spend their entire winters here.
The indications are that the coming session
of congress is to be one of the liveliest in our
history. Tho tariff is TO be thoroughly over
hauled, and we will havo speeches on free
trade and protection for weeks together after
the holidays. The interstate commerce ques-
ton is to again come up and a half dozen
senators and as many representatives have
bills to propose for a postal telegraph. These
movements will not be made merely for bun
combe, and it may be that the government
will fix tclc9raphic rates. 1t cannot of course,
regulate those of tho Western Union or Of
any companies now in existence, but congress
can authorize tho buying Of certain lines or
the leasing OF others, or the making of its
own lines. Senator Edmun(ls wants the
government to build its own lines. Senator
Cuiiom is i'll favor of either constructing
lines or leasing them, and there are q number
OF others who oppose the whole scheme on the
ground that it will add to tho clerical force
OF the government. Edmunds wants the
government to run the telegraph just as it
does the postoflices, and he thinks such
system could be inaugurated with little
trouble and little additional expense
The hangingsat Chicago and tho socialstc
clements which have como SO prominently
before the country within the past year or so
are to be other subjects of congressional dis
cl!ssion, and u number of the leading senators
have pronounced ideas on the extension of tie
limit OF the naturalization law. Senator
Mitchell, of Oregon, thinks that foreigners
should live at least ten years i'll this country
before they arc allowed to vote, and he is not
sure but the limit should be extended to
fifteen years.
Labor questions will form another subject
of legislation and both of the leading parties
will do their best to catch the labor vote.
Martin Foran. the congressman of Cleveland,
who started life as a cooper, and who is
looked upon a. one of the leaders of tho labor
element, will have new bills to propose, and
bills of u similar nature may be expected
from Congress- IAN John ONeill, of st. Louis.
Senator Mitchell, by the way, is Mrs. Hal
liday's lawyer i'll the great Ben Halliday will
contest Ben Halliday died last summer.
having made great fortune in the express
business, and he left from 81 200, 600 to ST.
100000 Some years before he died he made
will, in which he appointed s. l.. NJ Bar
low, q lawyer, of New York; a man named
Hampton, of Portland Ore, and his brother.
Joe Halliday, then a rich man at San Fran
cisco, rs his executors. Some time after this
Will was made he became slightly embarrass-
ed, and he borrowed of his brother Joe $780,
600, giving him mortgages on certain real
and personal property which he owned in
Portland. These mortgages, at his brothers
suggestion, were made to read as though thcy
were absolute deeds, and the property which
they covered was about equal to the amount
OF tho loan. Two or three years after this
Ben Halliday concluded to pay Off these
mortgages, and the property had In the
meantime increased to three times its
value, Or to about 81 100000 He took
s3l5, 900 to his brother Joseph and asked for
his mortgages. To his surprise his brother
claimed that the property had been sold to
him absolutely, and he intended to keep it.
Ben contested tho matter in the courts, and
the supreme court of Oregon decided that the
prinla facic deeds were mortgages, and that
the property belonged to him. This, of
course, caused a GOODNESS between Ben and
his brother Joe. They did not smile as they
passed by, and had no relations whatever
with each other. When matters were in this
condition Ben Halliday diel. In the mean
time Hampton had died and Joe Halliday
had moved to Portland. When the will of
Ben Halliday was called for no other could
be found but the one which made Joseph one
of his executors The law of Oregon pro-
vides that :; nonresident cannot act as the
executor of u WILL and Joseph was hence tho
sole executor. To this Mrs. Halliday decid-
cdly objected, and she is now contesting the
will. One supposition Is that Halliday made
another will and that it was DESTROYED, and
Senator Mitchell says he expects to gain his
case.
noticed Il remarkable instance of the ups
and downs of Washington society in one of
the street cars here yesterday. The car was
crowded, and a number of young men, some
of whom were extreme dudes, had seats. No
ladies were standing, except one colored ser
want girl. At this moment fine looking,
gray haired lady, richly dressed, entered the
car She was over the medium height, as
straight as an arrow, and she had one of the
kindcst and most beautiful faces I have ever
seen on an old woman Every line of her
face was refined, and though her thick hair
was of a silvery white, her bright blue eyes
were full of life. She wore mourning, and
there was crepe veil fastened to her bonnet
She stepped into tho car, and, seeing there
were no seats, she unassumingly caught hold
of strap and prepared to stand. She did
stand for two squares, and mono Of these
Washington dudes rose to give her a seat
until they were asked to do SO by gen
tleman standing beside me. Still this same
lady was once mistress of the White House,
and she presided over part of an admins
tration which socially was rs brilliant as any
i'll our history. 1t was John Tyer's daugh-
ter, who is now an inmate of the millionaire
Corcoran's home for old ladies and who, not
withstanding sher reduced circumstances, is
as fine a lady Us lives in the world today. l
recognized her US she took her seat and rs she
did so the contrast between now and nearly
fifty years ago entered my mind She was
then US much feted and toadied as Mrs
Cleveland is today. She must have been
fully US beautiful as Mrs. Cleveland, and l
doubt not the society columns were full of her
doings and her dresses. Then street cars were
unknown, and her brother John, "the hand
soonest man i'll Washington" drove his four
INLAND. Now John lives off his income as a
treasury clerk, and his sister is dependent
upon the bencfactions Of a millionaire
Truly Dame Fortune cuts strange capers in
this world of ours! THOMAS J. TODD.
The Gem Of tho Collection.
know a small boy of tender years who is
going to give himself an awful lot of trouble
when he grows up. He has developed a
strong taste for mementoes, and he keeps
fhcm nil carefully Va NIL kaen momontn,S